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Definitions of tsunami in various dictionaries:
noun - a cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
adj - a very large ocean wave [n -S] : TSUNAMIC
TSUNAMI - A tsunami (from Japanese: , "harbour wave"; English pronunciation: tsoo-NAH-mee) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of wav...
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| The Thai sign indicates that the area is prone to this natural disaster that can result from an earthquake |
| (VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):"(Hi, I'm Michael Newman of "Baywatch") It's the Japanese term for seismic sea waves, sometimes 100 feet high, that can bring lots of tsuris" |
| (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a model of an ocean.) On the ocean floor, earthquakes squeeze together a large amount of water and push it to the surface, causing this, from the Japanese for "harbor wave" |
| Triggered by earthquakes, these destructive sea waves have been known to travel at nearly 500 mph |
| Japanese for "harbor wave", one of these giant sea waves may form a wall of water over 100 feet long |
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A tsunami (from Japanese: , "harbour wave"; * English pronunciation: tsoo-NAH-mee) or tidal wave, also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calvings, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. Unlike normal ocean waves, which are generated by wind, or tides, which are generated by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, a tsunami is generated by the displacement of water. * Tsunami waves do not resemble normal undersea currents or sea waves because their wavelength is far longer. Rather than appearing as a breaking wave, a tsunami may instead initially resemble a rapidly rising tide. For this reason, it is often referred to as a "tidal wave", although this u |